Acute Misfortune: The Life and Death of Adam Cullen by Erik Jensen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
An unflinching portrait of talent and addiction. In 2008 the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic.
In the Company of Cowards by Michael Mori
$30.00 AUD
Category: General
On a beautiful, balmy evening in Cuba in 2007, David Hicks walked out of Guantanamo Bay, in that moment ceasing to be a detainee of the United States and regaining his rights as an Australian citizen. Watching on was the man who had fought for four long years for Hicks's right to go home: Major Michael ...Show more
Breaking Night by Liz Murray
$20.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Liz Murray never really had a chance in life. Born to a drug-addicted father who was in and out of prison, and an equally dependent mother who was in and out of mental institutions, she seemed destined to become just another tragic statistic. Another life wasted on the brutal streets of New York. By the ...Show more
My Bon Scott by Irene Thornton
$34.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In 1971 Adelaide girl Irene Thornton meets Bon Scott, the singer for local band Fraternity. He is a larrikin showman with a smile that rules the world. Between Bon and Irene, there is a unique spark; they marry in 1972. For the next few years, with Irene by his side, Bon Scott continues a driven but dif ...Show more
Mademoiselle - Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History by Rhonda K Garelick
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Certain lives are at once so exceptional, and yet so in step with their historical moments, that they illuminate cultural forces far beyond the scope of a single person. Such is the case with Coco Chanel, whose life offers one of the most fascinating tales of the twentieth century--t ...Show more
The Man Who Was Norris: The Life of Gerald Hamilton by Tom Cullen
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Dark Masters
An Outback Nurse by Thea Hayes
$33.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Thea Hayes trained as a Nurse in Sydney in 1959. A year later she was catapulted out of the safety of her city life into the unknown world of the Outback.Thea knew nothing of the place she was soon to call home, Wave Hill Station in the Northern Territory, the second largest property in the world under ...Show more
Hollywood Dreaming - Stories, Pictures, and Poems by James Franco
$40.00 AUD
Category: Entertainment
In his follow-up to the critically acclaimed "A California Childhood," James Franco presents a compelling portrait of the life of a young actor coming into his own in Hollywood. Told in an absorbing array of literary styles and art forms--from short stories and poems to personal snapshots, paintings and ...Show more
Lady Catherine and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Condition: **NEW** Sometimes the facts are even more extraordinary than the fiction...This book tells the story of Lady Catherine, a beautiful American girl who became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle, the setting for Julian Fellowes' award-winning drama Downton Abbey. Charming and charismatic, Ca ...Show more
High Stakes: The Rise of the Waterhouse Dynasty by Paul Kennedy
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian
When it comes to racing, the name most Australians associate with the racetrack is Waterhouse. This is their compelling story.HIGH STAKES tracks the story of the Waterhouse dynasty - from the early years of the colony to Bill Waterhouse's introduction to the bookmaking world as a sixteen-year-old, worki ...Show more
Victoria: A Life by A. N. Wilson
$49.99 AUD
Category: Historical
When Queen Victoria died in 1901, she had ruled for nearly sixty-four years. She was mother of nine and grandmother of forty-two, and the matriarch of Royal Europe, through the marriages of her children. To many, Queen Victoria is a ruler shrouded in myth and mystique - an aging, stiff widow, paraded as ...Show more
Instrumental by James Rhodes
$29.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
James Rhodes' passion for music has been his absolute lifeline. It has been the thread that has held him together through a life that has encompassed pain, conflict and turmoil. Listening to Rachmaninov on a loop as a traumatised teenager or discovering an Adagio by Bach while in a hospital ward - such ...Show more